Sir William Jackson Hooker. - oe, 
bear on the work in hand, was his extensive foreign and colonial 
correspondence, including especially that with a large number 
of students whom he had imbued with a love of botany, and 
who were scattered over the most remote countries of the globe, 
and several of whom, indeed, remained in more or less active 
sisted of eleven acres, with a most imperfect and generally di- 
lapidated series of ten hot houses and conservatories. Most of 
exception of the great orangery (pow used as a museum for 
woods) and the large architectural house near the garden gates, 
Buckingham 
Palace, not one now remains. They have been replaced by 
twenty-five structures (in most cases of much larger dimensions) 
exclusive of the Palm-stove and the hitherto unfinished great 
conservatory in the pleasure grounds. 
_ “To describe the various improvements which have resulted 
m the present establishment,—including, as it does, a botanic 
garden of 75 acres, a pleasure-ground or arboretum of 270 acres, 
three museums, stored with many thousand specimens of ne 
table products, and a magnificent library and herbarium, the 
finest in Europe, placed in the late King of Hanover’s houseon 
one side of Kew Green and adjoining the gardens,— would 
‘ather be to give a history of the gardens than the life of their 
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